Thank you for the responses guys, grumpy uncle, you appear to be doing
everything that you can to live up to it "reputation", to those of you that
offered suggestions / help, thank you. I was unaware that the problem could
be caused by hardware, thank you for the possibility of redirecting the
cause. As far a virus, spyware,…., I run OneCare, Ad-Aware and SpyBot
everything day so I believe that my system is protected but “who knows†for
sure? The only other observations that I can think of is that the Crashes /
Freezes usually occur when I use Mozilla and I have noticed that Windows will
advise me that it is shutting down the browser every now and then (that’s why
I thought that it was a software issue). One last thing. I am using a Dell
system that is about 3 years old, with 1Gig RAM and WindowsXp Professional
and the only new HW or SW that I have installed in the past few months
(besides “normal†software updates) is Photoshop Elements. Any “needle in
the haystack†help that you can offer would be appreciated. Bob